Know More! Educate Yourself About Coal
start here to "data mine" the internet
be sure to follow the links inside the links...
thar's gold in them thar hills...
Note: these links have been left in long form so you can read them.
a. Just who owns all these dirty coal fired power plants?
---- Here is a great list that answers that question. Inside the links are encyclopedia like pages of stations owned by each company around the world, also hot linked. First paragraph of first page here in quotations:
"Below is a list of power companies with a total of more than 500 MW in coal electric generating capacity in the U.S., or with active proposals to build new coal power plants. The list includes the headquarters of each company, and that company's coal power capacity in 2005. "
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Headquarters_of_U.S._coal_power_companies
---- This one is pretty self explanatory:
www.environmentalintegrity.org/pubs/AmericasDirtiest.pdf
---- "Peabody Energy (NYSE:BTU) is the world's largest private-sector coal company, with 2007 sales of 238 million tons and $4.6 billion in revenues. Our coal products fuel approximately 10 percent of all U.S. electricity generation and 2 percent of worldwide electricity." http://www.peabodyenergy.com/default-netscape.asp
---- This is a list of many electric companies' websites (as links.) Not all are coal based, though:
http://www.eei.org/whoweare/ourmembers/USElectricCompanies/Pages/USMemberCoLinks.aspx
b. How many Coal Plants are there in the U.S.A?
There are roughly 600 coal plants producing electricity in the U.S. Not one of them captures and stores its global warming pollution. “Electricity Facts,” US DOE 2008 (link); IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme CO2 Capture and Storage Database (link); Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program at MIT, CO2 Capture and Storage Project Database
c. How many are employed there?
If you figure this out, I will give you two high-fives
d. How many are being considered and how many are under construction?
----Under construction: http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN2326529820070326
--- Proposed Plants state-by-state:
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php
---- This is an excellent site called "Coal Moratorium NOW" It has links for all this kind of stuff, a bookmark-able resource:
www.cmnow.org
e. Coal fired plants across the world (same questions as above only global)
---- There are 50,000 Power Plants, though not all coal:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114163448.htm 7/11/071114163448.htm
---- In all, at least 37 nations plan to add coal-fired capacity in the next five years – up from the 26 nations that added capacity during the past five years. With Sri Lanka, Laos, and even oil-producing nations like Iran getting set to join the coal-power pack, the world faces the prospect five years from now of having 7,474 coal-fired power plants in 79 countries pumping out 9 billion tons of CO2 emissions annually – out of 31 billion tons from all sources in 2012.http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0322/p01s04-wogi.html?page=2
f. Current acts of Civil Disobedience against coal around the world:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nonviolent_direct_actions_against_coal:_2008
Extra Credit: Brush up on our vacation spot:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capitol_Power_Plant
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Posted by Jacob Hanson on March 8, 2009 1:49 pm
Also check out the Sierra Club's "Stopping the Coal Rush Map"
http://www.sierraclub.org/maps/coal.asp